George Orwell on Absurdism
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“Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”
“We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.”
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”